I called Helen K. today— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
and said I wanted to say goodbye
that just friends after what we had been
was not something I could do
It wasn’t bitter or argumentative;
as ever she meets me softly but head on.
we talked about us…what we had been
and why it had been so good…
That we could descent into utter passion
and yet operate with flawless logic
that we never fell into the emotion traps
that wait for lovers who aren’t friends
The afternoon in Palos Verdes when we last made love
in a field of waving grass and warm sunlight
of letters and poems written and destroyed
of consciousness and age, of lifetime friends…and now
gallagher
10 Nov 83
Archive for the ‘People’ Category
1983-11-10
Thursday, November 10th, 19831983-11-18 Gerda
Friday, November 18th, 1983Gerda— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
What magic with this woman
that such a current of humaness
runs thru us together
that we lock into our perceptions
and feelings together
and with laughing eyes
within the trust born of deep knowing
we mingle, spirit to spirit,
like warm hands,
like family,
like children of God.
gallagher
18 nov 83
– at Gerda’s
1983-12-02
Friday, December 2nd, 1983Ah, Bhagwan and Buber … mystics all— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
you’ve made my life so immesurably rich.
When I think of the joy you’ve opened for me
the feeling you call prayer fills me
until my skin melts into the feelings I am.
I have some small light that’s begun to shine
until smiles press from inside from secret places
and moments burn with searing baeuty.
And I know that here where I stumble,
you’ve gone, thank you.
gallagher
02 dec 83